BLACK, James Conquest Cross, a Representative from Georgia; born in Stamping Ground, Scott
County, Ky., May 9, 1842; attended the common schools and the high school at
Newcastle, Ky., and was graduated from Georgetown College, Kentucky, in 1862;
during the Civil War enlisted as a private in Company A, Ninth Kentucky
Cavalry, in the Confederate Army; moved to Augusta, Ga., in 1865; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Augusta, Ga.; member
of the State house of representatives 1873-1877; served as president of the
Augusta Orphan Asylum 1879-1886; member of the city council; served as city
attorney; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses
and served from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1895, when he resigned; subsequently
elected to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from
October 2, 1895, to March 3, 1897; was not a candidate for renomination in
1896; resumed the practice of law in Augusta, Ga., until his death there on
October 1, 1928; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.